29. No scholar may be presented a second time for examination

a. Under a lower standard; or

b. Under the same standard.

30. After March 31, 1873, no day-scholar above 9 years of age and no evening-scholar above 13 will be examined in standard 1.

31. After March 31, 1874, no day-scholar above 9 years of age and no evening-scholar above 14 will be examined in standard II.

REDUCTION OF GRANT.

32. The grant is reduced—

a. In the year defined by article 13, by its excess above

1. The income of the school from fees, rates, and subscriptions;

2. The rate of 158. per scholar, according to the average number in attendance; 3. One-half the expenditure on the annual maintenance of the school.

b. By not less than one-tenth nor more than one-half in the whole, upon the inspector's report, for faults of instruction or discipline on the part of the teacher, or (after six months' notice) for failure on the part of the managers to remedy any such defect in the premises as seriously interferes with the efficiency of the school, or to provide proper furniture, books, maps, and other apparatus of elementary instruction. If the inspector at a visit of surprise, (article 12,) not less than six months after notice has been given of the requirements of the education-department, reports that they have not been carried into effect, a deduction may be made from the next grant to the school. c. At the rate of £20 per year for every 40 scholars, after the first 20, of the average number in attendance, unless there has been during the year one pupilteacher fulfilling the conditions of article 70, for every such 40 scholars. A certificated (article 43) assistant teacher,or an assistant fulfilling the conditions of article 79, is equivalent to two pupil-teachers. The forfeiture may be reduced from £20 to £10 if a pupil-teacher fails in examination but produces the prescribed certificates, (article 77.) This reduction of the forfeiture is made only for the same pupil-teacher, and not in successive years for the same school. d. By 1s. per scholar, according to the average number in attendance throughout the year, unless vocal music forms a part of the ordinary course of instruction. 33. If the excess of scholars has arisen from increased attendance of children since the last settlement of the school-staff, (article 39,) the grant is not reduced under article 32.

SCHOOL-DIARY, OR LOG-BOOK.

34. In every school receiving annual grants, the managers must provide out of the school-funds, besides registers of attendance, (article 17,)

a. A diary, or log-book;

b. A portfolio to contain official letters, which should be numbered (1, 2, 3, &c.) in the order of their receipt.

35. The diary, or log-book, must be stoutly bound, and contain not less than 500 ruled pages.

36. The principal teacher must make, at least once a week, in the log-book, an entry which will specify ordinary progress and other facts concerning the school or its teachers, such as the dates of withdrawals, commencements of duty, cautions, illness, &c., which may require to be referred to at a future time, or may otherwise deserve to be recorded.

37. No reflections or opinions of a general character are to be entered in the logbook.

38. No entry once made in the log-book may be removed or altered otherwise than by a subsequent entry.

39. The summary of the inspector's report, and any remarks made upon it by the education-department, when communicated to the managers, must be copied verbatim in the log-book, with the names and standing of all teachers, to be continued on, or added to, or withdrawn from, the school-staff, according to the decision of the educa tion-department upon the inspector's report. The correspondent of the managers must sign this entry, which settles the school-staff for the year.

40. The inspector will call for the log-book at every visit, and will report whether it appears to have been properly kept. He will specially refer to the entry made pursuant to article 39, and he will require to see entries accounting for any subsequent change in the school-staff. He will also note in the log-book every visit of surprise, making an entry of such particulars as require the attention of the managers.

TEACHERS REFERRED TO IN THE PRECEDING SECTIONS.

41. The recognized classes of teachers are:

a. Certificated teachers.

b. Pupil-teachers.

c. Assistant teachers.

42. Lay persons alone can be recognized as teachers in elementary schools.

CERTIFICATED TEACHERS.

43. Teachers, in order to obtain certificates, must be examined, (article 44,) and must undergo probation by actual service in school, (article 51.)

EXAMINATION.

44. Examinations are held in December of each year at the several training-schools under inspection, (article 100.)

45. A syllabus of the subjects of examination for male and female candidates, respectively, may be had on application to the education-department.

46. The names of teachers desiring to be examined must be notified by the managers of their schools to the education-department before the first day of October preceding the examination.

47. Candidates admissible to be examined for certificates must be

a. Students who have resided for one year in training-schools under inspection; or,

b. Teachers of elementary schools, (article 4,) to which annual grants are or may be made, who are upward of 21 years of age, and have either

1. Completed an engagement as pupil-teacher satisfactorily; or

2. Obtained a favorable report from an inspector.

48. Teachers attending the examination may, at their option, take the papers of the first or second year's students, (article 102.)

49. A list is published, showing the successful candidates of each year, whether students or acting teachers, arranged in four divisions.

50. The relative proficiency of the candidates according to examination is recorded upon their certificates.

PROBATION.

51. Candidates for certificates, after successfully passing their examination, must, as teachers continuously engaged in the same schools, obtain two favorable reports from an inspector, with an interval of one year (article 13) between them; and if the first of these reports be not preceded by a service of three months, at the least, since the examination, a third report, at an interval of one year after the second report, is required. If the second (or third) report is favorable, a certificate is issued.

52. Teachers under probation satisfy the conditions which require that schools shall be kept by certificated teachers.

CERTIFICATES.

53. Certificates are of three classes. No certificate is originally issued above the second class. The third (lowest) class includes special certificates for teachers of infants and of small schools.

CERTIFICATES OF THE FIRST AND OF THE SECOND CLASS.

54. Candidates who are placed by examination in any of the first three divisions (article 49) receive certificates of the second class, which can be raised to the first class by good service only.

55. Certificates of the second class remain in force for ten years from the date of their issue, after which interval they are open to revision according to the intermediate reports.

CERTIFICATES OF THE THIRD CLASS.

56. Candidates who are placed by examination in the fourth division (article 49) receive certificates of the third class.

57. Certificates of the third class do not entitle teachers to have the charge of pupilteachers.

58. Certificates of the third class can be raised only by examination.

59. During the three years ending December, 1873, certificates of the third class may be granted without examination, upon the report of an inspector, to acting teachers who satisfy the following conditions:

1. They must, at the date of the inspector's report

a. Be above 35 years of age;

b. Have been teachers of elementary schools for at least 10 years; and

c. Present certificates of good character from the managers of their schools. 2. The inspector must report

a. That they are efficient teachers;

b. That not less than 30 children who had been under instruction in their schools during the preceding six months were individually examined, (article 28;) and

c. That at least 20 of the "passes" of these scholars in reading, writing, or arithmetic were made in the second or some higher standard.

59, (a.) In schools attended by infants only, (under 7 years of age,) 30 years will be accepted as the limit of age for the teacher, under article 59, (1, a,) and the conditions of article 59, (2, b and c) are not required to be fulfilled.

60. Pupil-teachers who have completed their engagement with credit may, upon special recommendation by the inspector, and upon consideration of their examinationpapers, be provisionally certificated in the third class, for immediate service in charge of schools (article 4) which have an annual average attendance of less than 60 scholars. 61. After their 25th year of age (completed) their provisional certificates must have been exchanged for permanent certificates (article 43) or are ipse facto canceled.

62. The provisional certificate is confined to an entry of the pupil-teacher's name in a register kept by the education-department, and does not involve the issue of any certificate to the pupil-teacher.

FUTURE RATING OF EXISTING CERTIFICATES.

63. Existing certificates of the first or second class are rated as of the first class. 64. Existing certificates of the third class, or upper grade of the fourth class, and infant-school certificates of the first class, are rated as of the second class. Such certificates will be open to revision at the end of 10 years from the date of their issue or of their last revision.

65. Existing certificates of the lower grade of the fourth class, and infant-school certificates of the second class, are rated as of the third class.

66. The class of any certificates not yet issued will be fixed by articles 54 and 56.

REPORTS OF THE MANAGERS AND OF THE INSPECTOR.

67. The managers must annually state whether the teacher's character, conduct, and attention to duty have been satisfactory.

68. The inspector reports of each school visited by him whether it is efficient in organization, discipline, and instruction.

69. Certificates may, at any time, be recalled, suspended, or reduced, under articles 67 and 63.

PUPIL-TEACHERS.

70. Pupil-teachers are boys or girls employed to serve in a school on the following conditions, viz:

a. That the school is reported by the inspector to be

1. Under a duly-certificated teacher;

2. Held in suitable premises;

3. Well furnished and well supplied with books and apparatus;

4. Properly organized and skillfully instructed;

5. Under good discipline; and

6. Likely to be maintained during the period of engagement;

b. That the pupil-teachers be not less than 13 years (completed) of age at the date of their engagement.

c. Be of the same sex as the certificated teacher under whom they serve; but in a mixed school-female pupil-teachers may serve under a master, and may receive instruction from him out of school-hours, on condition that some respectable woman, approved by the managers, be invariably present during the whole time that such instruction is being given.

d. Be presented to the inspector for examination at the time and place fixed by his notice, (article 11.)

c. Pass the examinations and produce the certificates specified above.

f. That the managers enter into an agreement in terms specially specified.

g. That not more than four pupil-teachers are engaged in the school for every certificated teacher serving in it.

71. The education-department is not a party to the engagement, and confines itself to ascertaining, on the admission of the pupil-teacher, and at the end of each year of the service

a. Whether the prescribed examination is passed before the inspector; and

b. Whether the prescribed certificates are produced from the managers and teachers.

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72. Whatever other questions arise upon the engagement may be referred to the education-department, (provided that all the parties agree, in writing, to be bound by the decision of the department as final,) but, otherwise, must be settled as in any other hiring or contract.

73. Vacancies in the office of pupil-teacher which occur in the course of any year must not be filled up until after the next examination by the inspector.

74. The candidate or candidates for such vacancies must be engaged in the mean time by the week only as monitors, and the memorandum of agreement will not be issued by the education-department to the managers until the inspector's report has been examined.

75. Temporary monitors, engaged by the week, for the supply of vacant pupil-teacherships, during a current year, satisfy article 32, c, provided—

a. That a sufficient number of candidates to complete the requisite proportion of teachers to scholars pass the next examination for admission (article 77) to permanent engagements; and

b. That the vacancies have been occasioned by causes which are accepted by the education-department as satisfactory.

76. Except in the cases provided for by article 75, each vacancy in a pupil-teachership during a current year works a forfeiture under article 32, c.

77. The qualifications and certificates required of candidates for admission, and of pupil-teachers in each year of their service, are regulated by special schedules.

PUPIL-TEACHERS WHO HAVE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THEIR ENGAGEMENT.

78. At the close of their engagement, pupil-teachers are perfectly free in the choice of their employment. If they wish to continue in the work of education, they may become assistants in elementary schools, (article 79,) or may be examined for admission into a training-school, (article 91,) or may be provisionally certificated for immediate service in charge of small schools, (article 60.).

ASSISTANT TEACHERS.

79. Pupil-teachers who have completed their engagement with credit, and candidates for admission into training-schools who have passed with success (article 94) the examination referred to in article 91, may serve as assistants in schools in place of . pupil-teachers, without being required to be annually examined.

80. Such assistants cease to fulfill the conditions of article 32, c, if at any time the inspector reports them to be inefficient teachers, or if they fail to produce from the managers and from the principal teacher of their school the same certificates of conduct, attention to duty, and obedience as are required from pupil-teachers.

81. A vacancy caused by the withdrawal of an assistant in the course of any schoolyear (article 13) may be supplied by the appointment of temporary monitors, pursuant to articles 74, 75, or of another assistant, qualified according to article 79.

82. Assistants make their own terms with the managers, both as to hours and wages. a. Assistants are counted as part of the school-staff (article 39) from the date at which their appointments are notified to, and approved by, the education-department.

83. A training-school includes

TRAINING-SCHOOLS.

a. A college for boarding, lodging, and instructing candidates for the office of teachers in elementary schools; and

b. A practicing-department, in which such candidates may learn the exercise of their position.

84. No grant is made to a training-school unless the education-department is satisfied with the premises, management, and staff.

GRANTS TO TRAINING-SCHOOLS.

85. Annual grants are made to the practicing-departments on the same conditions as to other public elementary schools.

86. Grants are placed to the credit of each college, of £100 for every master and of

£70 for every mistress, who, having been trained in such college during two years, bas since December, 1862

a. Completed the prescribed period of probation (article 51) and become qualified to receive a certificate as a teacher in a public elementary school or in a training-college; and

b. Been reported by the proper department in each case to have completed a like period of good service as an elementary teacher in the army, or in the royal navy, or (within Great Britain) in poor-law schools, certified industrial schools, or certified reformatories.

87. Teachers who have been trained for one year only may obtain certificates after probation (article 51) or may be reported by the proper department upon the same terms as others; and grants of half the amounts specified in article 86 may be placed to the credit of the colleges in which they are trained, provided

a. They completed their training before January 1, 1864; or

b. Are teachers of infants having

1. Received a complete and special course of training for that service in their colleges, which must have been previously recognized by the education-department as providing such a course; and

2. Undergone their probation in infant-schools.

88. Grants of half the amounts specified in article 86 may also be placed to the credit of their colleges on account of teachers trained during the years 1870, 1871, and 1872, who, having been admitted to a training-college under article 93, b, leave, with the consent of the authorities of such college, after one year's residence, to take charge of schools.

89. The annual grant to each college is paid out of the sums placed to its credit (articles 86 to 88) and must not exceed

a. 75 per cent. of the expenditure of the college for the year, certified in such manner as their lordships may require;

b. £50 for each male and £35 for each female Queen's scholar (article 95) in residence for continuous training throughout the year for which it is being paid. 90. The annual grant to each college is paid as follows:

a. An installment of £12, male, or £8, female, is paid on 1st March, 1st June, and 1st September in respect of every Queen's scholar (article 96) in residence for continuous training throughout the year.

b. The balance is adjusted as soon as the college-accounts for the year have been closed, audited, and approved by the education-department.

ADMISSION INTO TRAINING-SCHOOLS.

91. An examination of candidates for admission into training-schools is annually held at each college in December, during the week following the examination for certificates, (article 100.)

92. The examination extends to the subjects required in the course of a pupil-teacher's engagement.

93. The candidates are selected and admitted to the examination by the authorities of each training-school on their own responsibility, subject to no other conditions on the part of the education-department than that the candidates

a. Intend bona fide to adopt and follow the profession of teacher in schools fulfilling the conditions of article 86, a or b;

b. Having been pupil-teachers, have successfully completed their engagement; or, c. Not having been pupil-teachers, will be more than 18 years of age on 1st January next following the date of the examination.

94. The successful candidates are arranged in two classes in order of merit. 95. The authorities of each training-school may propose to the education-department, for admission, any candidate declared to be admissible pursuant to article 94. 96. Such candidates, when admitted, are termed Queen's scholars.

97. Before candidates are admitted

a. The medical officer of the training-school must certify the state of their health to be satisfactory, and that they are free from serious bodily defect or deformity; aud

b. They must sign a declaration signifying their intention, conformably to article, 93 a.

98. The authorities of each college settle their own terms of admission.

99. Upon proof by the authorities of any college that candidates have not fulfilled the conditions signed by them on admission into the college, the education-department will refuse to grant teachers' certificates (article 53) to such candidates, or to admit them to probation for certificates, (article 51.)

EXAMINATION OF STUDENTS IN TRAINING-SCHOOLS.

100. An examination of the resident students is held in December at the several colleges. The day fixed for the commencement of this examination is printed on the syllabus (article 45) from year to year.